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Below is my reflection to J.Krishnamurti's article:
How do we see ourselves and others in relationship without the psychological lenses of the past and the future, the images of myself and others, is a challenge for realizing love and beauty. If I view myself and others with the blinders of the past and future, there is neither love nor beauty. Love and beauty has no dividing lines within me and without me. I call it pure beauty and pure love or Oneness. And that indeed is the art of living. When I am present in the present moment I experience Oneness with nature and the people around me and with me. This kind of presence is beyond striving and struggling. In that way, it is effortless. It is natural. An image of myself and the other is time and space bound. It does not exist beyond time and space. It is bound by time and space. When my mind is still and quiet, I see myself and the other clearly, like the sky without self-created clouds. And that is real freedom from the known, freedom from projections, freedom from the inner shadows. May we have inner clarity and inner freedom to live in the world with love and beauty! Namaste!
1 Comment
Debbie Podwika
12/12/2021 01:28:35 am
Hmmm. I may have to think more on this one but...I do sorta get why this is being suggested as ideal...to be in the now because many people look at the past many times finding the wrongs someone has done to us or we have done in our own lives and use it to define and that can be bad BUT...I also think it can work for the good. I may be in the now and right now someone is hurting me by something they are saying or the way they are saying it. Now I can be in the moment and just feeling the hurt but perhaps I do think of the past, the past that tells me this person is usually not like this, this person has shown me great love in the past, this person has grown etc and that allows me to then clearly think perhaps something is bothering this person right now that is resulting in this hurtful message to me and if I ask them "what is wrong" nicely and lovingly I may find out. Again, perhaps I'm not understanding this post correctly but sometimes being in just the moment for me does not bring me to love. As for images of people and the space, I do agree with that idea. We never really see a person fully because we are usually not with them 100% of the time and we don't always know what they are thinking. We may also view their actions with some bias, perhaps we are not feeling well or stressed or view their actions from past hurts from others etc. Obviously, an interesting piece...it is making me think! :-) Leave a Reply. |
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